More Antique Images of "Salukis"...

Or whatever you want to call them. This one is French- Algerian from the 19th century. What interests me is that it is a very heavily feathered dog, like a "mountain" Central Asian dog today ("Khalag tazi"?), but from a place where there are only smooth "sloughis" now. There may be reasons for this, all too typical: colonials suppressing "poaching", locals no longer being able to afford to keep dogs, Europeans deciding whatever remnant was left was "pure". But it does show fluid boundaries and types, still again.

Notice how many quote marks I used here? All extremely deliberate...


Special thanks to Jess, who has just lost a good dog-- one that looked a bit like this one, actually.